Experimental Investigation of Energy Efficiency in Wireless Body Area Networks

This paper presents an energy-efficient architecture for wireless body area networks (WBANs) and a novel data transmission method that leverages the human body as a transmission medium. An experimental investigation is conducted to validate the energy efficiency of the proposed data transmission approach, which replaces traditional radio frequency (RF) methods. The results demonstrate a significant reduction in power consumption compared to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), with a 7-fold decrease, and ZigBee, with a 14-fold decrease.